What are the important events that happened on June 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 2: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 2 is the 154^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 20, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 477,024 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontatetragon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 241 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,181 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 2 Historical Events

• 1793 –
  French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
• 1855 –
  The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
• 1866 –
  Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
• 1909 –
  Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1919 –
  Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
• 1924 –
  U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1966 –
  Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
• 1979 –
  Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• 1990 –
  The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
• 1995 –
  United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady’s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

Who were born on June 2?

• 1917 –
  Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1946 –
  Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
• 1947 –
  Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
• 1949 –
  Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
• 1963 –
  Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
• 1969 –
  Cy Chadwick, English actor
• 1978 –
  Dominic Cooper, English actor
• 1980 –
  Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock drummer (The Strokes)
• 1987 –
  Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
• 1988 –
  Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player

Who died on June 2?

• 1716 –
  Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
• 1754 –
  Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
• 1948 –
  Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
• 1956 –
  Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
• 1961 –
  George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
• 1968 –
  André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1969 –
  Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 –
  Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and designer (b. 1937)
• 1977 –
  Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
• 1999 –
  Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)